A vital role for science-based traditional medicine in Africa

In early 2015, clinical trials of a 1000 year-old Anglo-Saxon eye remedy established that it was almost 100% effective at wiping out the MRSA bacteria. The main ingredients of the remedy? Onion, garlic and wine. “We were blown away by just how effective the combination of ingredients was,” said Dr Freya Harrison of the University of Nottingham’s faculty of medicine and health sciences….more